Facebook researchers use AI to build a better translator

Facebook is at it again, unleashing advanced AI networks on the world. This time, instead of being surprised by the ability of computers to create their own language, Facebook is using them to help us better communicate in ours. The social network's AI research team have turned translation services over to AI completely, it said in a post from an official blog. Facebook's Applied Machine Learning team has been training its AI to better understand how things like slang, typos, and intent work, in order to provide more accurate translations. They're using a type of neural-network called a convolutional neural-network (CNN), which has traditionally been relatively poor at this kind of thing.